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Friday, October 5, 2012

The Sleeping Beauty Chronicles by Anne Rice

Before 50 Shades of Grey & Bared To You There
was….

THE SLEEPING BEAUTY
CHRONICLES

Anne Rice

WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR

People are much more
comfortable today admitting and talking about what they enjoy in fiction and
film. Much more. People are “out of the closet” about sexuality, period. The
whole world knows women are sensual human beings as well as men. It’s no secret
anymore that women want to read sexy fiction just as men do, and there’s a new
frankness about the varieties of fantasies one might enjoy. So many clichés
have been broken and abandoned. And this is a wonderful thing. – From Anne Rice’s new
preface in the Sleeping Beauty Chronicles

Many people know that Anne Rice paved
the way for blockbuster books about witches and vampires. What they may not
realize, is that she is also the godmother of pleasure and pain erotica. When
Anne Rice published her seminal SLEEPING
BEAUTY CHRONICLES in themid-eighties
under the pen name A.N. Roquelaure, she couldn’t have predicted that not only
would her erotic take on the famous fairy tale become a huge
underground hit and a mainstay for erotica fans for three decades, but it would
also be a choice as ahead of the curve as her supernatural novels.

The series is more popular than ever,
and with sadomasochistic erotica dominating bestseller lists, more and more
people are discovering this classic trilogy. Now her books will be available
for a whole new generation of erotica fans. All three books will hit stores
nationwide on July 11th 2012,
from Plume with a provocative new preface and gorgeous re-package

In the first book of the series; THE CLAIMING OF SLEEPING BEAUTY (July 11,
2012/ISBN: 9780452281424/$16.00), Rice follows the traditional folktale of
Sleeping Beauty, the spell cast upon the lovely young can only be broken by the
kiss of a Prince. In Rice’s steamy retelling, The Prince awakens Beauty, not
with a kiss, but with sexual conquer. His reward for ending the hundred years
of enchantment is Beauty's complete and total enslavement to him. Rice’s
exploration of the master and sexual slave fantasy is both elegant and arousing
under her skillful pen.

BEAUTY’S PUNISHMENT (July 11, 2012/ISBN: 9780452281431/$16.00)continues her
explicit, teasing exploration of the psychology of human desire. Now Beauty,
having indulged in a secret and forbidden infatuation with the rebellious slave
Prince Tristan, is sent away from the Satyricon-like world of the Castle. Sold
at auction, she will soon experience the tantalizing punishments of "the
village," as her education in love, cruelty, dominance, submission, and
tenderness is turned over to the brazenly handsome Captain of the Guard. And
once again Rice's tale of pleasure and pain dares to explore the most primal
desires of the human heart.

In the final volume of Anne Rice's titillating
erotic trilogy, BEAUTY’S RELEASE (July
11, 2012/ISBN: 9780452281455) , Beauty's adventures on the dark side of sexuality make her
the bound captive of an Eastern Sultan and a prisoner in the exotic confines of
the harem. As this voluptuous adult fairy tale moves toward conclusion, all
Beauty's encounters with the myriad variations of sexual fantasy are presented
in a sensuous, rich prose that intensifies this exquisite rendition of Love's
secret world, and makes the Beauty series and incomparable study of erotica. In
it, Anne Rice makes the forbidden side of passion a doorway into the hidden
regions of the psyche and the heart.

**I am so excited offer my readers the chance to win a PRINT copy of The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty. The giveaway is open to US residents only. Good luck!!